We are springing into action!
Hear from two local authority planners about Local Development Plans in an additional joint webinar this coming Wednesday 6th March at 7-8.30pm.

thank you to Ariane Burgess Maree Todd Maurice Golden Monica Lennon MSP Elena Whitham MSP Maggie Chapman MSP Fulton MacGregor MSP Audrey Nicoll MSP Brian Whittle OLY Craig Hoy MSP and Ivan McKee MSP for coming to our NPF4 Is it working for People and Planet? event planningdemocracy.org.uk/2024/we-launch…

Thank you to everyone who came to our event last night NPF4 Is it Working for People and Planet? 15 powerful stories including the fight to save St Fitticks Park and Coul Links including also Inchinnan Development Trust BSCG Scotland savekingsmeadow Scottish Aquaculture Reform Network & more

Many thanks to Ariane Burgess for hosting our parliamentary event last night. We showcased our community-led research looking at how far #biodiversity is now protected in #NPF4 . Great to see so many communities and planners there. Still lots to do. planningdemocracy.org.uk/2024/we-launch…

With so many local authorities starting to prepare their Local Development Plans we've done a blog to help you navigate the Plandemonium and find out how to get involved!!
planningdemocracy.org.uk/2023/its-pland…

Looking forward to hearing our speakers Ariane Burgess MSP and Jane from Ferniehill at our Annual Gathering tonight 6pm at Augustine Church, George IV Bridge. All welcome.

This is a serious worry about biodiversity net gain.
Along with the ‘pocket’ habitats that supposedly make up for open spaces. And the ‘human interaction factor’ (cats, dogs, noise, light, air pollution, dislike of ‘messy weeds’ etc).
And lack of enforcement
List goes on…

Great article on Herald on Planning Democracy and @aprscotland work to highlight the problems with the volume house building industry and its impact on people and nature.

heraldscotland.com/life_style/238…

Great to be on the front page of the herald magazine with
Kat Jones from APRS excellent feature about volume house building and its impacts. Thanks Dani Garavelli

Contact us at [email protected] if you want to book a place at our Annual Gathering Thurs 2nd Nov 6-8.30 at Augustine Church EH1 1EL
Speaker: Ariane Burgess MSP on NPF4 focus on biodiversity improvements. Refreshments, networking and updates on our work.

There've been lots of changes in planning in Scotland, some hopeful. If you want to know how to influence planning in your local area, check out these free webinars we are doing with APRS.
aprs.scot/webinar-unders…

Our Annual Gathering is on 2nd November 6-8.30pm Augustine Church Edinburgh. Email us to book a place [email protected]
planningdemocracy.org.uk/2023/annual-ga…

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The hysteria and the sense of entitlement from people like Louise Dickens and the rentier class she represents is astonishing, but it tells a wider story of Impossible Scotland, a country where nothing can happen ... bellacaledonia.org.uk/2023/08/24/imp…

Absolutely.

The most expensive dish in the UK ? Cost - 101 illegally killed Hen Harriers since 2018 , plus 10K’s eagles , kites buzzards , 100K’s foxes , stoats , corvids all killed , vast swathes of ecologically derelict uplands , tonnes of carbon in the atmosphere and its full of lead .

Scottish Government plan to ban snares in Scotland

We wholeheartedly back a ban on this cruel & indiscriminate method of trapping & killing Scotland’s wildlife

But no animal should be killed in any way so more animals can be killed for ‘entertainment’

dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/…